Political Quotes

“I think it is two or three times the amount of caffeine that a Red Bull has. There is a reason why the conversion is happening--not that I have an intimate understanding of which beverages have which amounts of caffeine. But I am motivated to get up at this point because I think you hit on something really, really important. There are a number of different lanes that the policy we are talking about and the agenda of Russ Vought occupy, but I thought you just talked about a really important one, which is the effort to take anything left in the common space and shift it off to the private sector to become a commodity. Much of what we are discussing today is an effort to raid services that help poor people and kids and middle-class families and just bank that money so that they can afford this giant tax cut that is going to go primarily to the very, very wealthy and the corporations. Because Mr. Vought and the other folks who wrote Project 2025 and the other people that are populating the administration still believe in this long-discredited theory of trickle-down economics--which is that if you just give a ton of money to the very, very richest, then eventually that money will trickle its way down to everybody else. That is not how economics work. It was a fraud from the beginning. It is just intellectual window dressing for the rich and the powerful to get more rich and powerful.…”